August 2007 - new thread as I can't find one!

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Hi all,

VERY VERY long time no see..... just had a little catch up - my goodness, HOW MANY of you are preggers??? Gosh- NOT ME!
Can't believe our beautiful babies are talking walking noisy toddlers.
Evie is still a monster - always has been , always will be. She talks constantly, and is now stringing words together, like " I'll do it" - usually in relation to feeding herself, or getting dressed.. and usually accompanied by a small tantrum.
She does finally sleep through the night.. after a fashion- is up between 5.30 and 6.15 - still a shock after Billy who slept 7-7 from 4 months.
But - she does eat anything which is fab (compared to Billy), and she is happy to walk, or go in the pushchair, so its easy to take her out - unlike Billy who always wanted to walk no matter how long it took.
She has a passion for dolls (oh crumbs), handbags, and hats - she is SOOOO not related to me!
Take care all, can't say when I'll visit next - good luck with the births!!
xx

Happy birthday to gills ds and to everyone who has just gone/coming.

hiya everyone!

is everyone still about and all the toddlers doing well?

my lo will be 2 on the 30th i cant beleive how fast is gone! not much words her but he loves saying ee i ee i oo lol hes into full blown tantrums anybody else have this lovely experience?? my eldest is starting P1 in sept which he is a bit iffy about but hopefully he settles in ok.

i passed all my exams and start back to college again in sept which im looking forward to and hopefull be going to uni in sept next year.

oh im expecting number 4! a lot has happened over the last lot of months i can hardly keep up with myself.

hope everyone is doing well and all the new babys arent keeping their mummies awake too much.

Congrates Snot with both pg and exams.

Happy Birthday to all the lovely toddlers .

Lexie will be 2 on 7th sept and boy does she have her own personnality .

She is so much more vocal then Lizzie was at the same age, she just doesn't stop talking.

We have a lot of 'no want it' and 'fine' and 'ok' said with the attitude of vicky pollard .

congratulations snot, it's great to hear from you.

Lizziemum-Callum says 'no' like a highlander and his favourite seems to be 'but it's me's!'

Callum had a great birthday and he loves his tool bench and tools. He also learnt to count to twelve and takes great pleasure in telling anyone and everyone who'll listen

He is still obsessed with As Time Goes By and told me yesterday that he loves Jean, she's a Mormon i think he meant woman

Gill-hope the childminder situation is going ok and you've found a good one.

Hi helibee and happy birthdays to all.

Helibee, Callum sounds adorable the way he loves as times goes by. All we here from Caitlin is 'Peppa Pig next please mummy' she is obsessed!

Caitlin's bithday is bank holiday monday but her party is on Sunday. We have 45 guests coming - it's going to be a madhouse!!
Ciatlin is getting excited though as she's been running around this week shouting 'happy birthday Caitlin'!

Hi hersetta, i hope caitlin has a lovely birthday and that you enjoy your houseful of people.

Callum does love Bob the builder and Roary too, in fact that and as time goes by is all he wants to sing

My fibromyalgia has been really bad today and he said "mummy's got knees" cos my knees have been bad and then he gave me his blanket-thats true love from him

Hi everyone. I'm back at work after having 2 weeks off. The first week I had my niece and nephew for 3 days because my sister forgot that mum was on holiday and couldn't get any time off. In the second week we took the dcs to London Zoo and to a beach. The zoo was very tiring but good fun. We went to a wedding on Friday which was great. The dcs behaved themselves really well. Alex almost fell asleep in his dinner so I had to take him out for a run around after the starter and then he gave in and fell asleep on dh at 8pm.

I haven't had any time to look for childminders yet helibee. I was going to phone round this lunch time but something came up and I had to go out. Hopefully I'll get the chance tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.

Congratulations on passing your exams and the pg snot. I'm really pleased for you

Ds' favourite phrase at the moment is 'what's that for?' (comes out as 'hot dat hor'). The explanation is then followed by 'why mummy?'. It is sweet but gets rather annoying after an hour. I've started asking him what he thinks it's for. If it's food then he normally points into his mouth and says 'eat'.

Hersetta - hope Caitlin's party went well and wasn't too manic. Alex was singing 'happy to you mummy' constantly for a week before and a week after his birthday.

helibee - hope you're feeling better now. Callum sounds so sweet. He really loves his mummy

Hi folks, sorry I've not been on for ages but I was a bit fed up with mumsnet (not this thread, just the nasty judgey people about!)

but I had to pop on to tell you my news! I'm pregnant. Very very early on though, probably only 4 or 5 weeks gone, so I hope it sticks!

In other news, James starts doing a few hours at pre-school as of this week which should be good, got the pre-school staff coming over tomorrow to spend a bit of time with him so he feels comfortable with them as obviously he'll be going there alone. I'm not worried, he's so outgoing I'm sure he'll have a whale of a time!

Still not talking much although we're seeing minor improvements, he'll say "yeah" "dada" and "hiya" if you ask him to. Won't say anything like that off his own back, but he babbles a fair bit now, it's all diddle-iddle-iddle and babaga. I've made him an appointment to see a speech therapist but the waiting list seems long. Hopefully being at preschool will help too.

Hope you're all doing ok! x

Oh btw, folks who have me on facebook, we aren't telling people yet as it's so early so please don't say anything in "public"

Congratsssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks! Feels weird starting over again.

huge congrats James, i wont say anything on fb. That is such great news though. I have to wait a few more months to try as my medication is a wee bit strong atm and it wouldn't be fair on an unborn child. Anyway so excited for you.

Gill-Alex sounds so cute, although i'm sure being constantly asked whats that for is tiring

Callum still loves Hannah Montana, he told me yesterday "mummy, me's love annah anana and we's kiss" But that pales into insignifigance when it comes to his love for Jean from As Time Goes By, he is obsessed and he wants to watch her all the time, he talks about her in his sleep

Do any of your wee ones love their teddies? Callum's Bob the builder toy and George the giraffe (both around the same size as him) have to go everywhere with us, he says "ssshh" to them and gives them a dummy to sleep, he's very cute x

Helibee, we still have flopsy She will not sleep without him but months ago we limited dd to having him just at bedtimes after he was 'lost'

James, I am so pleased for you

Congratulations James - hope everything goes really well for you. Feeling all broody now but that might be because I've just sent ds1 off (screaming) to school today.

Enjoy every minute - the nine months will wizz past this time!

Congratulations James! I'm so pleased for you. Hope James gets on well at pre-school.

Alex isn't attached to any particular toy in that way helibee but he has adopted his sister's baby boy doll 'baby luke' which he keeps in his cot.

I took dd to school for her first day on Tuesday. I expected her to cry and hang on to me but she was fine. The teacher said she made a friend. She doesn't go back til Monday. I hope she's just as good although she did say that, even though she liked school, she doesn't want to go every day

I'm still having a nightmare trying to find a childminder. I've tried 25 so far - everyone within 2 miles of the school and our house. One said she would do it but she already goes to another school so dd would be hanging around the school on her own for 15 minutes or so and I don't like that idea. The school gave me the number of someone who is a childminder at the school but the Childrens' Information Service told me that she's not registered anymore. I've got the number of the local co-ordinator so hopefully she'll know of some cms who aren't on the web site.

Congratulations James - really please for you. Hope you have a great pregnancy. I'm excited as well as DH has said we can try for another. Thought he was dead set against the idea but haven't pressured him at all and he told me on Caitlin's birthday that we can try. Won't be until the new year but am very pleased.

We've just come back from a week at my Mum's in Spain. Had a lovely time and by the time we left Cait was calling 'Ole ladies' to all the old dears who go out for evening strolls - they were captivated by her and tried to take her with them! She was even very good on the plane as she had her own 'official' seat for the first time. She could sit doen and say 'seatbelt Mummy'.

Helibee - glad to hear Callum's love of Jean is still alive and well. Cait has 3 toy dogs which she has to sleep with. There's 'Big Dog' 'Doggy' and Doggy's brother'. We rarely make it out of the house without at least one of them coming along.

big CONGRATULATIONS to snot and Jamess
lovely news and wishing you a healthy pg.

Looks like a good age gap too, not great for us at the moment when there's terrible 2 melt downs and a hungry baby happening at the same time.

hi everyone, sorry its been a while but we couldnt get our computer to go wireless so no internet for 6 weeks, but ny new macbook arrivewd over the weekend so im back on line!!!
we are finally in and un packed, house is great and kids have settled really well, ds1 started his new school last week and so far so good, Taking ds2 to see a play group this week, he needs stuff to do now, we go swimming twice a week but i dont want him to be with me all the time, he was ssooo used to toddler groups and creche before so got to get him into something. Im ok, finding it hard to settle at times as i have no friends here, im sure it will change when Tate starts pre school and i find a toddler group and bits like that but do stuggle not being able to pop here for a cup of tea with friends and i miss family loads but my main concern is the children and they are good!!

Congratulations to the pregnant ladies, wishing you all healthy 40 weeks and also happy birthdays to all our little ones, where has them 2 years gone, even so my little one could easily pass for a 5 year old with his cheek and behaviour some times ( and his love of sponge bob square pants!!!)

Thanks all, I think I'm 6 + 2 today. Certainly doesn't seem to be flying by so far - I've joined the may 2010 antenatal group but there's been quite a few losses/threatened MC's on there so I think it's made everyone very aware of just how fragile early pregnancy is. I didn't have any of this with James since I only found out towards the end of the first trimester.

Hersetta, we were going to try again after christmas but once you start thinking about it you start thinking "a few weeks won't make much difference"

Try buying some ovulation testing sticks off eBay. We used those, got a nice dark line, had sex that night, 14 days later got bfp!

hiya, James glad everything is going ok with pg.

It turns out that i had an early miscarriage over the weekend, I was only about 5 weeks but still really sucks.

oh no one in RL knows apart from parents so please dont mention anything on fb

Oh helibee, I'm so sorry. (don't worry about facebook) Best of luck trying again, when you feel up to it. xxx

Sorry to hear your news Helibee - get Callum to give you extra big hugs.

Thanks for the tip james - i'll do that. I think we'll leave it though untill after Xmas as we're going to Egypt on Holiday for Xmas and New Year - will have a last few drinks and come home and give up in anticipation of TCC. Have resigned myself to it taking longer this time though as i am imensely old now (39).

Sorry i was Lizziemun but there has been another Lizzymum posting as well as a lot of other names beginning with 'Lizzie'.

Oh and i forgot where i put the hoover . And it was only 1 night.

Sorry to hear your news helibee.

Congrate james hope everthing ok now.

Herseta

I feel pg with Robert having sex just once when Lexie was 10mths at 39.

Where as it took 2yrs to fall for Lizzie at 34yrs and Lizzie was 10mths when we started ttc Lexie and Lizzie was nearly 3yrs when i had her.

Oh I'm so glad mum lives around the corner. Lizzie has bought a delightful D&V bug home again.

Lizzie was sick twice last night and DH was a way with work lastnight so i had to deal with it. Which I did realy well as i'm sick phobic. But today i have it and was unable to cope with the 3 dc so mum has come round and look after them and me.

Thanks for the encourgement Lizzie. It only took 3 cycles to fall when I got pg with Caitlin (but the first two we didn't have the foggiest when was the right time to do 'it'. I did a bit of reading on the internet before my 3rd cycle, kept a proper eye out for clues and symptons and got it right first 'proper' try IYKWIM).

Have got my OV pee sticks as reccommended by James - they arrived in less than 24 hrs - was very impressed! Now just have to wait for january !!